For the first time in Puppy's history we may get sufficient developers, testers and users to fully support a piece of specific hardware. We have had Puppy ready installed on a couple of x86 devices but they were quite pricey. It really all starts from the beginning again with the Raspberry Pi which uses an ARM processor http://puppylinux.org/wikka/PARM

After Pi we may repeat the experience with other ARM hardware
Some of you will have received the following email:

Quote:

The Raspberry Pi Foundation will be making a big (and very positive) announcement that just might interest you at 0600h GMT on Wednesday 29 February 2012. Come to www.raspberrypi.org to find out what's going on.

Eben Upton
Executive Director, Raspberry Pi Foundation

Here is what Ebens wife Liz, says about the announcement:

Quote:

I'm not allowed to say what the announcement is for arcane contractual reasons (it's actually quite interesting – I'll explain when I can). But I *am* allowed to say that you will feel like a total a******e if you don't get out of bed in time.

I will be up by then.

Good luck to the Raspberrians
A great bunch of enthusiasts, geeks, educators and penguins

Puppy Linux
Free Your Computer_________________Puppy WIKILast edited by Lobster on Tue 29 May 2012, 21:49; edited 3 times in total

Haha Eben has to be a true Geek to be up that early.
May I guess it is a lottery? We send in our email addresses
and they draw a random one that get a RPi for free?
That would be cool to take part in. What else could it be?
I can always set an alarm on my SmartPhone? to wake me up?_________________I use Google Search on Puppy Forum
not an ideal solution though

With any luck the news is they actually have 100,000 RPis, not 10,000!_________________My System:Arch-Arm on RPi!
"RacyPy" puplet on Toshiba Tecra 8200. PIII, 256 MB RAM.
RaspberryPy: Lobster and I blog about the RPi.

Next wild guess. The Ten first buyers will get the software at no cost?
I mean the SD Card cost a lot does it not? What is the smallest one need
to get a OS going? How does these small SD card look like so one know
if one have them already. Those I have for my Sony Ericson and Nokia and
Huawei has also same name but I know there are bigger ones that are used
for slots in cardreaders? So those I have maybe is named MicroSD and
those for the slot in my Netbook is named just Sd card? Which one do they prefer?

Ooops I guess obe ccan use a kind of adapter to make a micro into a standard one?_________________I use Google Search on Puppy Forum
not an ideal solution though

SD cards are not expensive.
Search for 2GB+sd+card on Google and you will see them available
from about $5 to about $15.
The price will vary by country and store but not by huge amounts.
I assume that 2GB should be more then enough for the PI.

But the interest is huge so most likely England and USA will buy all
of the RPi this batch. I hope they make more such later and not
stop with this one._________________I use Google Search on Puppy Forum
not an ideal solution though

Good news guys - they will be going volume after the first batch
AND the model A (which has only one USB (wifi dongle possible?) and no Ethernet
now has 256 ram - that is the $25 one - cheap and plenty of ram for Puppy.

Were you up? Did you get through to the suppliers?
I was. Drinking the hard stuff - black tea and Buddhist mantras . . .
Seemed to have expressed an interest with one of the suppliers

Oh the countdown was fun
Old enough to know the climax does not last long . . .

Yes, and me too - I "expressed an interest" with RS (Farnell seems to have crashed and then sold out very fast).

I am not happy because I still don't know if I will get one of the first batch
Anyway ..._________________My System:Arch-Arm on RPi!
"RacyPy" puplet on Toshiba Tecra 8200. PIII, 256 MB RAM.
RaspberryPy: Lobster and I blog about the RPi.

It will be put in a clear plastic case by the time it gets into schools
for when the little dogs get their paws on it

Dr Upton (or Eben to use his Puppy name) and the Pi team are gonna now focus on
programming - which means getting them snakes ready - Python is their language of choice
We might wean them onto Vala/Genie

I am learning as fast as I can! The latest post on my blog is a little "hack your homework" thing for mean, media and mode.

My next task is to write a program that does multiplication using the grid method. Fun!_________________My System:Arch-Arm on RPi!
"RacyPy" puplet on Toshiba Tecra 8200. PIII, 256 MB RAM.
RaspberryPy: Lobster and I blog about the RPi.

Pi bundles are on the cards . . . cheap barebone ARM computers http://www.element14.com/community/groups/raspberry-pi
I know Puppys recycle, use their old hardware and generally turn any old
PC into a speed demon but this is just for fun . . .
I think I may have registered my interest twice now . . .

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